The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 49
Everyone went out to meet him with cymbals and fifes and drums, and there was great rejoicing over his victorious return.
Who acts: Everyone, King · What happens: go out, meet, be, rejoice, return · To what, where: King, victorious return
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 meet | mark |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 meet | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cymbals | case |
| 8 | cymbals | cymbal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 meet | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fifes | cc |
| 10 | fifes | fife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cymbals | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drums | cc |
| 12 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cymbals | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 great | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 great | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 great | cop |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 18 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 great | advcl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 return | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 return | nmod:poss |
| 21 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 return | amod |
| 22 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rejoicing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Everyone | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Everyone not said here | King | with cymbals and fifes and drums | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with cymbal=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is | past | there | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rejoice | gerund | King's victorious return | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | return | King | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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